Tirupur

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Tirupur

Tirupur is a textile town in Coimbatore District of Tamil Nadu; It is one of the fastest developing towns in Tamil Nadu. Tirupur is famous for cotton knitted garment wears. Tirupur is situated near Coimbatore which is "The Manchester of South India".

Here Cotton is spun to various counts from 10s to 100s used in Hosiery and Woven. Tirupur is known as Dollar City, Knit City , Cotton City and mainly "Hosiery Centre". Tirupur's hosiery factories are more profitable in India's economy. Tirupur is one of the largest foreign exchange earning towns in India.

Tirupur is basically a traditional centre for cotton ginning. Tirupur exports many textiles items and clothings. This city accounts for 90 % of India's cotton knitwear exports to all over the world. The Noyyal river runs through the city.

The climate of the state is hot in summers and cold in winters with the temperatures ranging from 35°C to 10°C. Tirupur receives an average rainfall of 2,100 mm.

Flora & Fauna - Due to the sufficient and well-distributed rainfall, the state has an ideal composition of land mass and water that houses a large variety of flora and fauna here. A wide variety of plant and orchid species are found in the forests of Tirupur. Sal (Shorea robusta) is an important product of the forests here.

History of Tirupur

The development of Tirupur, one has heard so much of knit wear boom in the press over the past few years. However, none of the explanations in the press have been able to explain why and how this little town in TamilNadu has come to be the centre of India's local banian and export cotton knitwear industry. The industry works through a web of small to mid-sized units, with fabrication here, processing elsewhere and stitching somewhere else. These networks of firms operate through jobworking, contracting and sourcing arrangements. The business families set up "sister concern" rather than large fully integrated factories. Despite of some of its difficulties, the business culture in Tirupur is appreciating.

The historical research on Tirupur leads us back to the "thottams" or well irrigated farms around the town, as most of the industrialists of today have come from modest agricultural backgrounds. Though countless interviews about their lives and work, it has been realised that it was these modest farmers who have innovated in the organisation of the industry. There are many ways in which these ex-farmers came to the industry, worked in knitware firms and got to know the production close at hand and entered as small owners, often in family partnerships. As the industry grew from the old interlock banians to fine banians with an all-India market in the 1970s, the first generation of ex-farmer industrialists created "sister" units, often managed by their relatives, expanding the industries in dispersed units throughout the city.

The uniqueness of Tirupur's work culture has made it difficult for the big Indian textile giants to enter and capture a large market share, as the rules and norms governing manufacturing and jobworking are often informal and personalised.

How to Reach Tirupur

BY AIR: Tirupur has only one airport at Agartala that connects the place with Guwahati and Calcutta.

BY RAIL: Tirupur has no railheads inside the state. The nearest railheads are at Kumarghat (140 km from Agartala) and Silchar (180 km) in Assam.

BY ROAD: The National Highway 44 connects most of the places of Tirupur via Shillong. The state transport corporation and private tour operators run regular buses that connect the state with the nearby towns and cities both within and outside the state.